Bag-holder



-(Mode1.)

WITNESSES W. T. MOORE.

BAG HOLDER.

Patented July 25', 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. MOORE, OF RIOHVIEW, ILLINOIS.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,748, dated July 25, 1882.

Application filed March 20,1ss2. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. MOORE, of Richview, in the county of Washington and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Iinprovementsin Bag-Holders; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views, of the parts of a bagholder embodying my improvements.

This invention relates to bag-holders; and it consists of a slotted shoulder and standard, a pivoted L-shaped rack-bar, a hollow tube adapted to be adjusted on the rack-bar, provided with spring-arms having teeth or fingers on their outer edges, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, 01 designates the base of the bagholder, and c the shouldered slotted standard, the shoulder f being near the base g, which is braced, as shown, to give it stability. The slot is extended from the base 01 vertically to quite near the upper extremity of the standard 0. Immediately below the shoulderf, and near one edge of the base g, and within the slot h, is pivoted an L- shaped rack-bar, a, having a foot-piece, F, as shown. A tube, I), provided at its upper end with diverging downwardlycurved spring-arms G, having teeth or fingers e e, for engaging and holding the bag, is fitted upon the standard 0, and is rendered vertically adjustable thereon by means of the L- shaped rack-bar a, so that the holder may be lowered to release the distended filled bag and elevated'to receive another, to be in like manner released. The spring-arms may be laterally compressed to permit them to enter the mouth of the bag, and when the pressure has been released they will expand, being elastic, and cause their teeth or fingers to engage and hold the bag open. The adjustment permits the bottom of the bag to rest on the base d, which prevents the fabric of the bag from being torn by the teeth or fingers e '0 when weighted with the grain.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim'is The bag-holder herein described, consisting of the slotted shouldered standard, the base, the L shaped rack-bar pivoted in the slot of the standard, the adjustable tube fitted to the standard, and having the spring-arms provided with teeth or fingers at its upper end, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witness.

WILLIAM THOMAS MOORE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE WHITE, W. L. Moss. 

